[107920] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mechanisms for a multi-homed host to pick the best router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Wed Sep 17 22:42:30 2008
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:42:15 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <71c13900809171932m477b5d51jf0e0f9883546e3c3@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Cayle Spandon wrote:
> I have a server which is multi-homed to N routers as shown below:
>
> +---+
> R1---| |
> | |
> R2---| |
> ... | S |
> | |
> Rn---| |
> +---+
>
> This server is a host; it is not a router in the sense that it will never
> forward any packets (but it might run routing protocols as discussed below).
This is going to be the stupid question of the day, but unless you have
a route policy (in which case, what was the question again?) why would
you not sent the reply out the same spigot you go the request on?
